and Canadian officials will meet this week in a bid to salvage a deal on softwood lumber trade that is showing signs of fraying just six months after it was signed, a U. The meeting in Ottawa comes almost three weeks after Washington requested consultations over what it considers violations of the deal, which was hailed last fall as an end to decades of lawsuits over bilateral softwood lumber trade. Behind Washington's complaints are programs in several Canadian provinces to assist the...

VANCOUVER -- A trio of market shocks is set to tip the perception of global wood supply from one of abundance to relative scarcity, a forestry industry conference was told yesterday. But the reality will almost certainly be worse, he said, with supply falling off more quickly than had been previously assumed. Russia, meanwhile, may also shake up global wood supply with its February move that it plans to dramatically raise its export tax on raw logs over the next years to encourage a...

While the industrial revolution was winding down, the need to document everything increased exponentially, and the demand for paper products grew as the rain forests were gutted. When you are losing great wood species' to disease and no one cares, you need to get that offall made pulp from somewhere. A number of years ago (coincidentally around the time humans started doing things with internal combustion engines) the rain forests in South America started to be ripped down to make room for...

Sunday, April 15, 2007 05:18 AM As the lumber prices drop, and the forest industy dips into one of its cyclical "troughs" there is the reality that had mostforest industry players NOT received a healthy refund in softwood lumber duties in the fourth quarter of 2006,they would have recorded deep losses. Sunday, April 15, 2007 05:18 AM As the lumber prices drop, and the forest industy dips into one of its cyclical "troughs" there is the reality that had mostforest industry players NOT...

Thin strips of waste wood tied up in bales that can replace the straw commonly used to control erosion on everything from charred forests to restored mine sites. Portable bins that can be dropped in difficult-to-reach logging sites and filled with timber slash or chips that might later be ground into pellets for wood stoves or used to heat a school. The event was sponsored by the Forest Service and Montana Community Development corp. Much of the work in the woods these days is focused on...

Suzuki praises North; Says region has better grasp on environment than cities do Scott Paradis / The Daily Press Local News - Monday, April 16, 2007 @ 10:00 Northeastern Ontario understands the environmental movement better than its big-city counterparts, Canada's best known environmentalist says. Suzuki praises North; Says region has better grasp on environment than cities do Scott Paradis / The Daily Press Local News - Monday, April 16, 2007 @ 10:00 Northeastern Ontario understands the...